Improvement in buckles



'HERMANN EAUTZ, OF NEWARK, JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,032, dated July1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HERMANN FAUTZ, of Newark, New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Buckles;

and I do declare the following to vbe a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawingand to the letters of reference marked thereon and forming part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is au isometrieal projection of the buckle, in which A is thebuckle-case or bedplate; G, the serrated wedge; a, the screw v or lipattached to or forming part of the block C. b is the slot. Fig.'2 is asection through the buckle and strap B.

My invention consists in having a tapering box, A, for the reception ofthe strap B, in which said strap is firmly held at any required point bymeans hereinafter described. With- 'in said box A is an adjustablewedge-shaped plate or block, G, which is held up against the upper innersurface of said box A by means of a screw or stud, a, which slides backand 4 forth through a slot, b, inthe top of the box A in conjunctionwith said plate C. The function of said wedge-shaped block or plate G isto hold at a given point the strap or other article designed to be heldby means of the 4 buckle, and it should not be made so thick as to llentirely the box A, regard being had to lthe thickness of the materialof which thel strap may be composed;

When the end of the strap is inserted -into the mouth of the buckle, at0, the plate C should be moved backward by means of the stud a, so thatthe strap will pass freely and nicely beneath it, and when drawn throughto the desired point the plate O should be rei leased, when, on pullingoutward upon the strap B, said plate C is forced forward and downwardupon the strap, wedging and holding it firmly between the plate C andthe bottom plate of the buckle, the pin a always affording a ready andeffective means of starting the wedge and releasing the strap in ease,

.' The bottom plate of the buckle extends back of the box A far enoughto admit of one end of the strap being secured to it.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The buckle, consisting of the tapering box A, the serrated wedge G withpin a, when said pin operates in slot b upon the inclined top of box A,as and for the purpose described.

HERMANN FAUTZ.

s Witnesses:

(hans. KREITLER, OLIVER BRAKE.

